- Four children were found alive two weeks after they were in a plane that crashed in the thick Colombian jungle in the southern area of the country, President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday.
- “After arduous searching by our military, we have found alive the four children who went missing after a plane crash in Guaviare. A joy for the country,” Petro said in a message via Twitter.
- The children, aged 13, 8, 4, and 11-month-old baby, from the Huitoto indigenous community, were rescued in the jungle area of Caqueta province by military, firefighters, and civil aviation authorities.
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Belgian pilots Alexandra Maingard and her husband Cedric Collette fly their vintage Stampe OO-GWB biplane near the Pyramids of Giza, on the southern outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo on November 13, 2016 during the Vintage Air Rally (VAR).
A dozen biplanes from the 1920s and 1930s are flying 8,000 miles from Crete to Cape Town in a vintage aviation rally that harks back to the early days of air travel. / AFP / KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)
